Friday, November 8th 2013
Nofan Working on Affordable CR-80EH Silent CPU Cooler
Silent cooling solutions maker Nofan, of the CR-95C fame, unveiled its second, more affordable silent CPU cooler, the CR-80EH. While its bigger, copper-built sibling can handle CPUs with TDP of up to 95W, this one caps out at 80W, so it should handle certain low-power variants of quad-core Intel Core "Ivy Bridge" and "Haswell" chips just fine.
The cooler features a diameter for its upper ring of 155 mm, and a height of 113 mm. Built of copper, it weighs about 300 g. Its design involves a solid copper base that's polished to a mirror finish, from which copper fins project up and out in a conical fashion. A 6 mm-thick heat pipe holds the fin array together. The Nofan CR-80EH supports Intel sockets LGA1150, LGA1155, and LGA1156. AMD socket FM2 is also supported, but the manufacturer recommends chips with under 80W TDP. The CR-80EH is expected to arrive in a few weeks, priced at US $60.
Source:
FanlessTech
The cooler features a diameter for its upper ring of 155 mm, and a height of 113 mm. Built of copper, it weighs about 300 g. Its design involves a solid copper base that's polished to a mirror finish, from which copper fins project up and out in a conical fashion. A 6 mm-thick heat pipe holds the fin array together. The Nofan CR-80EH supports Intel sockets LGA1150, LGA1155, and LGA1156. AMD socket FM2 is also supported, but the manufacturer recommends chips with under 80W TDP. The CR-80EH is expected to arrive in a few weeks, priced at US $60.
30 Comments on Nofan Working on Affordable CR-80EH Silent CPU Cooler
If, however, I wanted a fanless silent PC, Nofan would definitely be the first people on my mind.
the plus side is, if you do a full passive setup, you probably wouldn't need to tinker much inside your case anyways, there will be almost no dust build up at all years after years of use.
It's nothing particularly innovative about Nofan coolers. It's no problem to make a passive cooler if you make it massive. And these are massive. The rest are usual heatpipes and heat transfer joints further from the heatpipes...
Did cool pretty well. I do see the concern with blocking the PCI-E lane closest to the CPU as well as ram.
I was discerning the difference between using these and a regular tower cooler with their fans ripped out. (please read the whole thread)
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I own the CR-95 black in a gaming rig that only runs fans on my r9 290. Thus I wanted to share how these units work. First the concern over size is warranted but easy to overcome. it covers the first slow which on most boards is a pci 1x. This comment of covers is a misnomer as you have about 2-3 inches for a small pci card like added usb. Next the cooler can get in the way of fancy heat sinks on ram, no fancy heat sink no problem. I used low profile ram with a fancy heat sink. This new unit looks like it will not interfere with either of these problems given it's diameter will not block a pci 1x or the ram due to the cone shape.
For the coffee strainer picture. The company that owns NoFan is a lighting company. I think they re purposed sconces of theater lights to be coolers. Once you see it the urge to put a light bulb in the center becomes overwhelming.
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But thank you sir for being so informative.